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Youאַתָּהhave commandedצִוִּיתָהyour preceptsפִקֻּדֶיךָto be keptלִשְׁמֹרdiligently.מְאֹד
Psalms 119:4
Study it in the app“You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.”
Happy are those who walk in YHWH's instruction; the psalmist asks to keep his statutesObedience
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 119:4, word by word
- have commandedצִוִּיתָהtsivita
command
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsivita” appears- your preceptsפִקֻּדֶיfikude
precepts
Precepts: what God has charged people to keep. It is used only in the plural and almost only in the Psalms.
Where else “fikude” appears- to be keptשְׁמֹרshemor
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “shemor” appears- diligentlyמְאֹדmeod
very
To a very high degree: the word that adds force to what is said.
Where else “meod” appears
The context
3Indeed they do not practice injustice; in his ways they walk.
4 · This verse (above)
5Oh that my ways were firm to keep your statutes!